A/N: ah, you guys must hate me with how long it takes me to update...sorry. I hope you enjoy this chapter though...even though it is a bit short....
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Chapter Five: Awake, Asleep, Awake, Asleep.
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Never before had I ever experienced such pain. The scorching, searing invisible flame that engulfed me was physically unbearable.
Lucifer laughed.
"You've become so pathetic my love. I remember. How your eyes would burn with hatred, with rage. So radiant, so beautiful. And look at you now." He said condescendingly with a smirk, again gripping my chin.
His fingers were white hot, burning the flesh they found there. I couldn't help but wince.
The laughter reemerged, the heat rose, my head fell.
"Sebastian!! Wake up dammit, or I swear I'll kill you! Sebastian!" Came a pleading voice, though the command was meant to be firm, fearless. A small smirk tugged at my tired features.
Ciel.
"You owe me for this one." Came an echoed voice from the inside of his head, causing my closed eyes to open in alarm.
A slim female form appeared in-front of me, her right arm stretched out to the side, the other at her body, hand clenched in a fist. "That's enough Lucifer, let him go." Lilith command, her voice eerily hypnotic in its forcefulness.
"Since when will you ever have command over me?" Lucifer scoffed, still continuing his sadistic hold on me. Lilith sighed, bringing her left hand to her chest, right still held where it was.
"Brought upon by wind and flame, I reduce you to that from which you came." She lightly chanted, her voice like air.
A black, gel-like orb with swirls of white suddenly formed around me and I was instantly alleviated of the pain, dropping to my knees from weakness. Lucifer's face turned indignant. "You dare defy-"
"Now is not the time for this." She interrupted, clapping her hands together once firmly. My eye's widened and I felt the orb begin to contract slowly around me. Quickly the scene in-front of me began to warp and I gripped my head trying to steady myself.
I was suddenly very tired, eye's dropping before everything became blinding white, sucking me in with it.
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"Sebastian!! Wake up, you still belong to me, I still own you! Why? Why are you leaving me too?" Came a tunneled voice.
Ciel felt so far away, though I could dully feel his head against my chest, hear the heavy shaking in his tone.
What was happening? Why had Lilith let him go?
I was reluctant to open my eyes, somewhat enjoying the dull handing feeling I felt just drifting in-between my world and the one Ciel had introduced me to.
The boy weakly punched my chest, a small smirk pealing my lips. My throat felt dry, and my arms felt heavy. I managed to release a sigh to alert Ciel of my regaining of consciousness.
Ciel's head jerked from my chest at the movement, his breath stopping. I could feel his gaze on my face. Slowly I opened my eyes.
The boy's form was blurred, but relief swelled in me. I loved him, red-rimmed blue eyes and all. I gradually brought a strained hand to his tear stained face.
"I can't leave you." I started, voice cracking from the dryness. "I'm your butler, to the very core." I finished before blacking out again, Ciel gripping my hand that fell limply from his cheek.
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"What do I owe you Lilith?" I asked the woman who had entered into my sleep. She looked at me, her eyes not the usual hardness that they usually were.
"We're dying." She said sadly, griping the side of her arm. I looked at her curiously, not really understanding what she had said. "How so?" I asked for clarity.
"All of us, we're starting to decay. Lucifer included." She elaborated, slowly pulling up her right sleeve. My eyes widened in shock.
Her skin layer was chipping just above her forearm, revealing an endless darkness, a pitch black that was truly our inner selves. "What am I supposed to do?"
She looked at me curiously. "You're the only one who hasn't been affected so far, considering you are still functioning in their world, I thought you would at least know something." She said matter-o-factly.
"What would I know that you wouldn't?" I retorted and she nodded at this, absent-mindedly tracing her vacant patches of flesh. "You're right, but now you know. We're at a loss, we think it might be His doing." She continued on another thought, but the space around us started to warp and our time was coming to an end.
She looked at me, brief concern wavering in her hard eyes. "Figure something out, and if you find anything you must tell us. Also, if you are called on you are to report immediately. I won't be able to save you if you disobey Lucifer again." She warned as well as reprimanded, before she disappeared into the low fog of my ending dream.
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A/N: Ahh, another short chapter, and it took me two weeks to update, i'm so sorry.
I still don't really have a firm idea for this series, i'm just sorta kinda going with the flow...haha. I do hope to do more smut in the future, but i'm not sure when. Be patient with me please.
Review and let me know what you think, and give me some guidance if you would be so kind.